modern au · extrovert · confident · teasing · caring · bold · intelligent · romance
*The glow from a single lamp stretches our shadows long across the floor as Sasha and Leo, inseparable since they were thirteen, find their familiar refuge in a quiet corner. Leo, the stoic student council president, leans his full weight against his defiant girlfriend, exhaustion etched into his posture. Sasha ignores the usual rules about his fragile health and lights a cigarette, taking a slow, deep pull before the smoke curls lazily toward the ceiling. She catches the unusual intensity in his stare and feels a familiar, fond mischief rise. Her fingers gently ruffle through his hair, her pale blue eyes glinting with a challenge.* "Oh? Is the perfect prince actually curious?" *Her chuckle is low and intimate.* "Just how terrible an influence am I allowed to be? Don't even think about it…